Things I Remember as a 90's Kid

I love a bit of nostalgia, remembering all of the TV shows and toys of my childhood. Everybody thinks their childhood TV shows were the best, and I'm no different - without doubt, the 90s WERE the best!

So if you were born in the 80s and grew up in the 90s, then I hope you will remember a few things I have listed on this page, and have fun walking down memory lane. Seems odd now that we'd never heard of Facebook or MySpace, we didn't have the internet or a mobile phone for most of our younger years (I got my Nokia 3210 when I was 11 and played Snake all day!), we had cassettes and VHS tapes not CDs and DVDs, and the Nintendo was the games console of our dreams. Those were the days...

I live in the UK so some things below are UK specific, but I'm sure everyone will find something they remember here :-)

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The first computer the family owned was an MS DOS with a black screen and we had to type in commands. The only things we could do on there were play Big Red Racing and go on a really slow flight simulator.

We finally got a new computer with Windows, and I used Encarta for ALL of my homework.

At school, we used to play 2 educational games on the PC: 'Gadgets and Gizmos', and 'Where in The World is Carmen SanDiego?'

Eventually we got dial-up Internet and it was very exciting, even though we had to wait half an hour for a screen to appear, and get off the Internet when someone wanted to make a phone call.

Party bags.

Getting my first mobile phone - a Nokia 3210 - and everyone standing around playing Snake thinking they look very cool!

Rub-on tattoos, often free with Mizz or other magazines.

Lucky Charms cereal which included fun shaped marshmallow pieces.

Screwball ice-creams with chewing gum at the bottom.

Iced gems.

Choc Ices.

Pom-pom bear crisps.

Collecting little turtle ornaments out of Kinder Eggs.

When The Simpsons was on before Fresh Prince on BBC2 and had NO ad break!

Ready Salted Chipsticks.

'Lunchables' for my packed lunches. I can actually still taste them.

The fear about the millennium and how it could be the end of the world, or the millennium bug will strike all electrical items. I went to a millennium party dressed all in silver - it was fun!

'Talk to the hand'.

I had a neon coloured bum bag.

Strap-on roller skates.

Proper sports days with races including the egg and spoon race and the bean bag relay, whilst everyone else sat around making daisy chains and eating ice pops.

Fibre-optic lights.

Collecting the caps off the old Smarties tubes because they all had a different letter on.

Passing on the Lurgie around the playground.

I didn't think I'd ever get used to Opal Fruits being called Starburst.

Watching Blue Peter, cartoons, Fresh Prince of Bel Air and The Simpsons after school. Watched the early Simpsons episodes many, many times.

Kenan and Kel.

Knowing the words to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air intro.

Friends, the ultimate 90's show.

Teletubbies. Eh ooohhhh!

Power Rangers.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Biker Grove.

Goosebumps.

Postman Pat

Noddy

Tin Tin.

Sooty.

Popeye.

Looney Tunes

Sabrina the Teenage Witch

Alvin and the Chipmunks

You've Been Framed, with Jeremy Beadle.

Surprise, Surprise, with Cilla Black.

Boys at school ran around shouting 'Can you SMELLLL what the ROCK is cooking?!' for years after WWF wrestling began.

Noah's Island ("hoisky poiski")

Wizardora.

Bodger and Badger.

Rosie and Jim.

Art Attack, where everything was made of paper mache and I never had the patience to finish any project anything myself (I had a half-paper-mached crocodile head in my bedroom for aaages and I can't even remember why now!)

Fireman Sam.

Pingu.

Robot Wars.

How 2.

Budgie the Helicopter.

Wacky Races with Dick Dastardly and Mutley.

Recess.

Rugrats.

Even Stevens.

Malcolm in the Middle (in fact, that's still my favourite programme along with Fresh Prince and Friends...I really am a 90's kid!)

Fun house with Pat Sharp.

Finders Keepers.

Moomins.

Smurfs.

Charlie Chalk.

Get your own back.

Rupert.

Worst Witch.

Funny bones.

Grange Hill.

Hey Arnold.

Old Bear.

Queen's nose.

Sesame Street.

Thunderbirds.

Thomas the Tank Engine.

When I hear 'and another one bites the dust', I think of Gladiators - complete with foam hands and Wolf (he was fab).

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90's Toys and Crazes

Yo-yos, with tricks such as the Cradle and Around the World.

Fold-up scooters.

Furbies.

Beanie Babies.

Care Bears.

My Little Pony.

Polly Pocket.

SEGA games consoles with Sonic the Hedgehog games.

Super Nintendo console (NES), where you had to blow dust out of the games if they didn't work at first. Super Mario was the best! We also had Street Fighter, Lion King, Chip 'n Dale, and Duck Hunt where you use an orange gun attachment.

Slinkies.

Troll dolls.

Pogs (I still have over 100 of these!)

Slap bracelets.

The Yo-Ball (the stretchy string with a goo-filled ball at the end), which got banned.

K-Nex.

Play-Doh.

Aliens in egg shaped containers filled with goo. There was a rumour going around that some of them could have a baby alien so I bought 3 to try to find one that did!

Sky Dancers - fairies and princesses that flew when you pulled the string. Also the cheap version with flying disc propellers.

BB guns.

Cap guns.

Frisbees.

Ker-Plunk.

Guess Who.

Pogo Sticks.

Sea Monkeys.

Barbie.

Hot Wheels.

Twister.

Cat's Cradle.

Pokémon cards.

Classic Gameboys.

I used to wear magnetic earrings or stick on ones that were like stick on gems. Girls used to put them at the corners of their eyes sometimes too.

Spice Girls

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Surreymagic

4 years ago

Wow- you have reakky gone to town with your 90's lens- loads and loads of TV, music and toys listed there. I was a kid in an earlier decade but some of these 90's things were also 70's things!

anonymous

5 years ago

Great Lens, the 90s were great

anonymous

5 years ago

Just read all the things from the 90s! Omg I remember everything! thanks for all the memories lol

anonymous

6 years ago

@anonymous: You can download a sega megadrive emulator to play on your computer &amp; you can download hundreds of games, including James Pond 2, which was 1 of my personal favourites too. go to a website called emu paradise and you can find out how to download all that you need :)

anonymous

6 years ago

Does anyone were i can buy a sega megadrive n does anyone remember a game call james pond 2 robocod lol i love that game

Great little reminder of a the things I used to love.. Pogs and How 2 were my favourites!

anonymous

6 years ago

90s stuffs are the best. I never found something great like 90s stuffs now....how I missed my childhood. Well I feel sorry with today's kids....they can't feel the excitement like how 90s kids feel....

anonymous

6 years ago

I was born in 1990, this page definitely brought back a lot of memories for me! Life was so much better in the 90s, I wish I could go back and live it all again only without school.

nsixx99

7 years ago

Lots of memories here! Wow some of it looks so odd now, but I loved it back then.

kelsieilesha

7 years ago

ah. the 90s.

How I miss my childhood.

great television shows, great music, great toys, not so great fashion. lol

I'd give anything to go back to the 90s for a day knowing what I know now.

I'd have so much fun! lol

taliasmith23

7 years ago

WOW! great collaboration i loved it check out these 90's toys and games

fantasticallyfi

7 years ago

Wow, this has taken me back. Excellent lens - very enjoyable. Please feel free to have a look at my account of the 90s too!

WNJ631 LM

7 years ago

This is crazy! I was just having some 90'd flashbacks earlier today, but i can't believe how much of this stuff I've forgotten. You may have just convinced me to spend a few extra hours reminiscing in a lil 90's time warp tonight haha! Excellent lens! ;-)

DressGoon

8 years ago

I was a kid in the 90s and this brings back a lot of memories. great lens

indigomoth

8 years agofrom New Zealand

All good and nice memories... except Blobby. I hate that guy.

inkvamp

8 years ago

I had COMPLETELY forgot about Encarta! Before I started googling everything and finding most of my answers to things on wikipedia, that's what I used too!

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